Friends, Join us for some noise-making tomorrow evening: 6:45 pm until about 8 pm in Scoville Park. It s a MoveOn.org rally to protest Bush s veto of the Iraq

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Friends,

Join us for some noise-making tomorrow evening: 6:45 pm until about 8 pm in
Scoville Park. It's a MoveOn.org rally to protest Bush's veto of the Iraq
pullout bill. Bring your friends and also some noise-makers, like pots and
pans, and, if you can, some signs.

Congress just passed a plan to start bringing our troops home this year.
President Bush is going to veto it. We're having rallies all around the
country on Wednesday-when the veto is expected-to oppose the veto and urge
Congress to stand firm.1 Can you join us in Oak Park?

Congress is about to send an important bill to the White House-it would
require the president to start bringing our troops home from Iraq this year.
President Bush has said repeatedly he's going to veto it. It's outrageous.
Most Americans support a timeline and he's standing in the way.

This will be a pivotal moment on Iraq-it's not clear what Congress or the
president will do after the veto. We need to make clear that President Bush
is really vetoing the will of the American people. And we need to tell
Congress to hold firm.

There are already more than 200 rallies planned and it's really important to
turn out in big numbers to get our message across. There is one right near
you in Oak Park

Four years ago today, President Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in
Iraq. Now there is a plan on the table that will finally start bringing our
troops home-but the president is going to veto it. By doing so, he's vetoing
the will of the people.

Congress has two options on how to respond-they can either cave to the
president's pressure or stand strong and demand accountability from him on
Iraq. Members of Congress are going to be gauging public reaction in the
next few days to decide which path they'll follow.

There's also a fun twist to these rallies: We'll be using noisemakers to
demonstrate that President Bush and Congress cannot ignore us any longer-our
voices must be heard.

As Senator Feingold recently wrote:

By carrying out his veto threat, the President will mark yet another sad day
in the history of this war. But that veto should be seen as a rallying cry
for the vast majority of Americans who believe that the time has come to
again stand up, and stand together, with one voice, and demand a policy that
makes sense-one that puts our country and our national security first. A
policy that makes America safer, not weaker.2

Now is the time to take a strong stand against the president's reckless
policy in Iraq. Together, we'll show the media and Congress that we won't
stand for another blank check for the president on the war. Can you join us?

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